Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition

Roses, rhododendron / A. Adams --
The egg ; I want to know why / S. Anderson --
Rape fantasies / M. Atwood --
The story of my dovecot / I. Babel --
Sonny's blues / J. Baldwin --
The lesson / T.C. Bambara --
My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / R. Banks --
Lost in the funhouse / J. Barth --
A city of churches / D. Barthelme --
[Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / A. Bierce --
Like a bad dream / H. Böll --
The end of the duel / J.L. Borges --
Cathedral / R. Carver --
Paul's case / W. Cather --
The enormous radio ; The swimmer / J. Cheever --
The darling ; Gooseberies ; The lady with the dog / A. Chekhov --
[The story of an hour ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W)/ K. Chopin --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / S. Clemens (M. Twain) --
The secret sharer / J. Conrad --
The magic poker / R. Coover ;
The blue hotel ;
The open boat / S. Crane ;
[The way up to heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W) / R. Dahl --
[The red-headed league](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W) / A.C. Doyle --
The doctor / A. Dubus --
King of the bingo game / R. Ellison --
Dry September ; [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) ; [That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / W. Faulkner --
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Tuesday siesta / G.G. Márquez ;
The yellow wallpaper / C.P. Gilman --
The overcoat / N. Gogol --
The life of the imagination / N. Gordimer --
Two gentle people / G. Greene --
Argument and persuasion / D. Hall --
Tony Kytes, the arch-deceiver / T. Hardy --
[The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) ; [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / N. Hawthorne --
A Vermont tale / M. Helprin --
Hills like white elephants / E. Hemingway --
The lottery / S. Jackson --
The real thing ; The tree of knowledge / H. James --
A white heron / S.O. Jewett --
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) ; [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / J. Joyce --
A hunger artist / F. Kafka --
The man who would be king ; Mary Postgate / R. Kipling --
Not a good girl / P. Klass --
Haircut / R. Lardner --
The horse-dealer's daughter ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The professor's houses / U.K. LeGuin --
One off the short list ; A sunrise on the veld / D. Lessing --
To build a fire / J. London --
A tree, a rock, a cloud / C. McCullers --
The magic barrel / B. Malamud --
A dill pickle ; Miss Brill / K. Mansfield --
The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham --
The necklace / G. de Maupassant --
[Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / H. Melville --
Patriotism / Y. Mishima --
Boys and girls / A. Munro --
The passenger / V. Nabokov --
The going-away party ; Where are you going, where have you been? / J.C. Oates --
The creature / E. O'Brien --
Everything that rises must converge ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
Guests of the nation ; My oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor --
Do you like it here? / J. O'Hara --
I stand here ironing / T. Olsen --
A conversation with my father / G. Paley --
War / L. Pirandello --
[The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W); [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) ; [The purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / E.A. Poe --
Flowering Judas ; The grave / K.A. Porter --
The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --
The diver / V.S. Pritchett --
The shot / A. Pushkin --
The conversion of the Jews / P. Roth --
I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 / J. Sayles --
Gimpel the fool / I.B. Singer --
The chrysanthemums / J. Steinbeck --
The catbird seat / J. Thurber --
The death of Ivan Ilych / L. Tolstoy --
The tryst / I. Turgenev --
A & P ; The music school ; Made in heaven / J. Updike --
Roselily ; To hell with dying / A. Walker --
Blackberry winter ; The patented gate and the mean hamburger / R.P. Warren --
Petrified man ; A worn path / E. Welty --
The other two ; Roman fever / E. Wharton --
The use of force / W.C. Williams --
Smokers / T. Wolff --
The man who was almost a man / R. Wright --
Writers on writing: How to tell a story / S. Clemens (M. Twain) --
Stephen Crane's own story / S. Crane --
Biography of a story / S. Jackson --
On her own work / F. O'Connor --
The brief prose tale / E.A. Poe --
"Blackberry winter": a recollection / R.P. Warren --
Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / E. Welty.